This airy Albina restaurant sells a number of scene-stealing seasonal pastries in its case, but those looking for something special can also order a birthday cake. The olive oil cake arrives with layers of lemon curd, jam, and cream cheese frosting. Chocolate cake and carrot cake are also available. All cakes, which people can order online, are prettily garnished with seasonal flowers.

This old-school Irvington bakery has been operating since 1924 and is the Platonic ideal of the classic American bakery. The glass cases at Helen Bernhard Bakery practically overflow with frosted sugar cookies, doughnuts, pastries, petit fours, and full cakes. The bakery has earned its stay in the Portland scene with delicious custom cakes for every style, from airbrushed beauties like the best version of a grocery store cake, or detailed, fondant affairs. Call to place an order.

Papa Haydn is one of the pillars of the Portland cake scene, running strong since 1978. The bakery and restaurant’s two locations offer standout classic American cakes and single slices for dessert. Whole Papa Haydn’s cakes like the Mt. Adams, a thoroughly Portland creation with hazelnut-coconut cake, praline, Viennese buttercream, wild huckleberry compote, and huckleberry buttercream, are available for special order. Customers can also order celebration cakes in flavors like almond custard or spiced banana, or choose a themed cake with an optional mini smash cake add-on.

This custom cheesecake business serves sophisticated slices (and whole cakes) topped with drizzles and flower petals, in flavors like blueberry lavender and hazelnut rum. Owner Kiana Lee’s cakes are often spotted at Portland restaurants thanks to their silky texture and distinctive flavors. Cheesecakes are available vegan or not, and each cake is naturally gluten-free with almond flour crusts. Order online and text to schedule a pick-up time.

While Nacheaux has transitioned to a pop-up, folks can still order fun, extravagant cakes made by chef and owner Anthony Brown. Brown’s cake options generally focus on cheesecakes, pound cakes, and tres leches cakes, often playing on lively flavor options — think: cookie butter pound cake, Cinnamon Toast Crunch cheesecake, and lemon-cardamom tres leches. Cakes start at $30, and can be ordered online.

This cozy Hawthorne bakery is perhaps best known for its colorful macarons, but Farina also creates buttercream cakes starting at $32. Cakes here are ultra customizable; customers start by choosing cake, buttercream, and filling flavors before selecting texturized designs and garnishes. Macarons can even be added for an extra special flourish. A minimum of three business days notice is required for all cake orders.

Modeled after the ice cream shop’s birthday cake and blackberries flavor, Salt & Straw’s ice cream cake features seven layers of rainbow-flecked yellow cake and its Double Fold Vanilla ice cream swirled with blackberry jam. The cake is finished with cream cheese frosting and birthday cake crumbles — and it’s a veritable must for summer birthdays when it’s extra hot out. It’s available for pick-up or delivery.

Fans of cupcakes can acquire giant cupcake-shaped cakes at this bakery with locations in Lents, Happy Valley, and Oregon City. Cake traditionalists have plentiful options as well, including the Twinkle Sprinkle, a white cake with raspberry filling and coated with sprinkle vanilla buttercream. Eye-catching designs like a llama-shaped cake or one festooned with ombre rosettes are available.

As a four-time champion of Food Network’s Cupcake Wars, baker Kyra Bussanich knows her way around cake. Her gluten-free creations are celiac safe and can come in elaborate designs like marbled mirror glaze or a fondant woodland scene. Go classic with the vanilla birthday cake or a chocolate cake, or branch out with specialty flavors like strawberry champagne or the marionberry twist, a lemony confection filled with marionberry jam. At least four days’ notice is required for custom orders.